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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Mob Justice: Police, Hoodlums Kill Delta State University Student

Policemen
attached to the Badagry Police Division, Lagos State, and some hoodlums have
been accused of killing a 25-year-old undergraduate of Delta State University,
Ifechukwude Nwainokpor, and his friend, Kazeem.

An eight-minute video
clip, sent in to Punch, showed the two victims handcuffed together. They
were covered in their own blood and beaten to death with sticks. Tyres were
also put round their necks. An irate mob could be seen in the video, shouting,
“die, die, burn them, burn them.”

At some point in the
video, a policeman was seen interviewing the boys. He asked who sent them
(victims) to rob the area, an accusation they denied. One of the hoodlums,
holding a sharp object attempted to cut off the private part of one of the
victims.

Nwainokpor’s father,
Samuel, stated that his son’s death was a result of a terrible
misunderstanding, and that he was innocent of the crime he was accused of.
Nwainokpor was a final year student of Geology and Mining.